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Should Mark Martin & Kelley Earnhardt Miller Run NASCAR? | Coffee With Kenny · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Here's today's topic. If Kelly Earnhardt Miller and
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  Mark the Kid Martin out of Batesville, AR were in charge of
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  NASCAR. Now, I don't know if that would
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  ever happen because I think they're really happy doing what
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  they're doing. But the reason we're going to go
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  down this rabbit hole is because that's all anybody ever talks
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  about. You know, sometimes it's worth
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  talking about something that people talk about.
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  And that's what I do here. All I see all the time is Mark
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  Martin needs to be in charge of NASCAR.
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  Kelly Earnhardt Miller needs to be in charge of NASCAR.
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  So let me give my opinion on this.
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  I know a thing or two about both of these.
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  They're both my very good friends and Kelly Earnhardt
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  Miller, you respond right here, sweetheart.
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  Both of them extremely smart. I've known Kelly Earnhardt
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  Miller, God, oh man, since I've been in my 20s.
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  And just a couple highlights about her.
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  She's a bad ass. She's extremely smart.
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  She's just a great lady. One time I was talking to her
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  and I texted her and she'd called me back.
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  She goes, Kenny, there is an E in my name.
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  And if you're watching this, Kelly, you're laughing right
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  now. Don't spell her name, Kelly.
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  She said Kenny. It's KELLEYI said Kelly.
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  I've never spelled it wrong again.
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  Now, the other thing that Kelly told me that I'd like to share
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  with you all is she gave me some of the greatest advice of my
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  life. So she's a critical thinker.
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  She's very smart, like I've already said.
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  But just to tell you why Kelly Earnhardt Miller is an executive
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  and she said to me one day, Kenny Wallace, I like you
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  because you are a no maintenance friend.
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  Now I've done a Kenny conversation with Kelly and you
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  should go check it out on the Kenny Wallace YouTube show.
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  It's very good and I knew exactly what she meant when she
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  said Kenny Wallace, I like you. You're a no maintenance friend.
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  Sometimes when you get friends, they just can't give you a
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  break. They got to be all in your ass
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  and calling you and texting you. And but Kelly, I don't need to
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  talk to her for six months. And then when I do talk to her,
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  it's like we just left left off. In other words, it's it's just
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  like we've been talking each other for a long time.
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  And isn't it true that those are some of the best people?
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  We're busy and you're busy. But whatever you need, call me
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  and and I got you. And that's the type of person I
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  am. OK, Mark, the kid, Martin.
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  Mark. I've known Mark ever since I've
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  been a child. I mean, Mark, I tell you right
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  now. And when Mark rolled up the hill
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  one month ago in his motor coach to my house for coffee with
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  Kenny, it reminded me why he is such a great race car driver and
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  he is in the Hall of Fame and he has done it all.
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  You know, his father, Julian Martin, owned a trucking
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  company. Mark's been part of dealerships.
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  Mark is a brilliant mind. And Mark reminded me of this
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  when we got to talking. You know, Mark was having fun
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  and but he was very serious saying we need to put the
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  numbers of the car back in the middle.
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  The aesthetics matter. Mark was saying, the fans are
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  telling me they want the old point system back, you know, and
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  I was on my high horse saying, listen, NASCAR's great,
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  everybody's old. They're just complaining.
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  So Mark rolled up my hill and we did a record 2 days of content.
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  Mark Martin is a brilliant mind. He can, he can see things that
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  people can't see. And that was my take away from
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  Mark. Mark knew that NASCAR was headed
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  down the wrong path with these points.
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  And I, I didn't see it. I just didn't.
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  I just my, my defense was that I didn't think it was a big deal
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  'cause we went for years and nobody said a thing about it.
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  And then all of a sudden this year, you know, Mark come up and
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  said, hey, you know, Mark said something to me I'll never
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  forget. He says there's a reason those
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  old NASCAR races on YouTube get such a big view, viewership.
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  So what would it look like of both of these great people,
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  Kelly Earnhardt Miller and Mark Martin?
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  What would it look like if they worked for NASCAR?
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  Well, Kelly Earnhardt Miller, what would she bring?
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  She would bring executive skills better than anybody because
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  she's running race teams, she's running employees, She's working
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  with sponsorship. They even have a real estate
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  company. I know that because I had 12
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  rental homes. And I told Kelly.
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  I said, yeah, I sold my 12 rental homes to David Reagan.
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  Kelly said, oh, you should have told me, Herman.
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  We'd love to have bought them. And I thought, well, I'll be
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  damned. So there's a lot more to Kelly
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  Earnhardt Miller than you ever want to dream of.
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  So. So she is qualified and she's
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  probably overqualified because she knows so damn much that she
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  could be jaded. You know, sometimes when you
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  know too much, it, it, it, it clouds what you're thinking.
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  But in this case, I'm thinking to myself, you could be working
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  in your race shop and can't get something right.
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  And somebody walks in and they they see it because they have a
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  fresh mind and they tell you how to fix it right away.
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  And you're like, I'll be damned. I never saw that.
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  And hear you come in with a fresh mind and you clean up this
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  mess right away. I think that's what Kelly
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  Earnhardt Miller and Mark Martin could do for NASCAR.
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  However, Mark Martin is a millionaire over and over.
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  And he's older than me, but nobody's old.
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  I'm 62. I know Mark's got to be 6465,
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  whatever it is. Does Mark Martin really want to
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  go to work? I don't.
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  I it's like Jeff Gordon. I'm like Mark, I'm like, you
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  know, like Jeff Gordon. It's great that he works for
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  Rick Henders, but I'm like, damn, Jeff, you're a legend.
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  Do you really want to go back to work?
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  I mean, is Jeff Gordon, is he working?
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  If he is, that's a bitch. So my thought was Mark Martin
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  and Kelly Earnhardt Miller, while we dream that they would
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  be great for NASCAR, I don't think he'd want that job.
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  Us fans, we'd love it. But I think most both of them, I
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  think Kelly Earnhardt Miller and Mark Martin are millionaires
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  over and over as it is right now.
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  I'm sure that Dale Junior loves his sister so much that I think
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  they they got it going on. And I'm sure, I'm sure Kelly's
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  happy where she is now. Could she ride to the rescue and
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  and be a white knight? Could a white knight saves the
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  day? Could could Kelly Earnhardt
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  Miller and Mark Martin? Could they save NASCAR?
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  Yes. And if they decide to do it,
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  maybe it could be from a a point where they don't have to go into
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  the office every day that they could do some some phone calls
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  or they could do some zooms and give NASCAR their opinions.
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  Because I got to tell you, when I talked to these two, they
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  changed me. They're smart.
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  Smart as a whip. All right, everybody respond
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  right here. I can see the headlines right
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  now if Mark Martin and Kelly Earnhardt Miller were in charge
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  of NASCAR.